FROM MUSEUM COLLECTIONS TO PERSONAL ARCHIVES, AND PRIVATE HISTORIES; LET’S FIND GREAT STORIES TO SHARE.
Gatherer is a creative studio that takes an archive-first approach to content production. We bring together over 20-years-experience working with archival material to create compelling content and unique experiences for audiences. Gatherer help clients weave their past, present and future into a compelling story their audience will love and use our digital marketing skills to spread their story far and wide. Founded by journalist, producer and digital strategist Tim Stone and digital producer and creator Aya Hatano. Gatherer draws on the combined skills and experience of Stone, Hatano and collaborators to deliver a multitude of successful projects on any platform.
Tim Stone
PRODUCER / WRITER / DIRECTOR / FIRE-STARTER
Tim Stone is a documentary filmmaker, content producer and broadcast journalist with an extensive knowledge of both television and digital production. His documentaries, short films and comedy series have screened at a number of prestigious film festivals around the world including Cannes Court Metrage in France, Raindance Film Festival in London and the 3rd Annual Streamys in Los Angeles. His 2015 graffiti documentary: Thrill + Fury: the Art of the Tag is sold by ABC Commercial and in 2017 screened at Tag - Name Writing in Public Space a global graffiti conference in Berlin.
Stone has produced four documentary series for the ABC: Curators; Cave Clan; Thrill + Fury: The Art of the Tag; Golden Age of Piracy.
As a journalist Stone has interviewed some of the world's leading art figures: Hermann Nitsch, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci (deceased), Joseph Kosuth, Tracey Moffatt, Douglas Gordon, Ryan Gander and many more. As a broadcast journalist he has produced television for ABC News, News Breakfast and the ABC's weekly culture show The Mix. He has reported on everything from the demise of suburban video stores to the opening of the 2017 Venice Biennale in Italy.
As digital strategist he has managed campaigns for the ABC's leading digital offerings and biggest entertainment properties; from channels ABC iview, News 24 and ABC ME (ABC3), to Chris Lilley's Angry Boys, The Chaser and The Librarians. Stone is a highly-experienced Google Adwords and CPM display advertising specialist. Stone has a proven track record of explaining complex ideas to the widest possible audience across journalism, documentary and digital marketing.
Aya Hatano
CREATIVE PRODUCER / EDITOR / VIDEO ARTIST / GRAPHICS / CAVE PAINTER
Aya Hatano is a video artist and animator with a passion for telling great stories. Combining archival material, animation and motion graphics, Hatano has successfully applied her creative thinking and design skills to collaborations with artists, curators cultural institutions across the globe.
Hatano has extensive experience working with artists, museums and institutions across a range of multimedia and video projects. From interactive touch panel displays, digital installations and documentaries to projection mapping video onto Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building. As a motion graphics designer for film and television, Hatano has produced a diverse range of screen graphics for broadcast. From title design for documentaries and educational programs to animation sequences and onscreen graphics for documentaries and television series.
Throughout her career Hatano has produced numerous short documentary series and one-offs for museums, galleries and film festival screenings. In 2019 Hatano co-produced and narrated Through Samurai Eyes a one-hour radio documentary for ABC Radio National’s The History Listen podcast, and in 2014 co-produced the Japanese-language short documentary Looking for Rubbish about 93-year-old Osaka-based Toyoji Hatano and his extraordinary daily routine.
Michael Brain
PRODUCER / PRODUCTION MANAGER / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Michael is a producer, production manager and director of photography with over 25 years experience working across film, television, art and theatre productions in Europe and Australia. Starting out as a member of Melbourne's Super 8 filmmaking community in the late 1990s, Michael has a track record of working within budget and short time frames to deliver outstanding results.
Based in Berlin from 2013 to 2021, Michael collaborated with a diverse range of artists and musicians, including techno legends Pan Pot and independent researcher and artist Portrait XO (winner of Eurovision's AI music contest). Between 2015 and 2020, Michael produced two dozen educational films for the prestigious International Baccalaureate, followed closely by a series of promotional spots filmed over two years across Europe for 3D printing software innovators 3yourmind.
Since his return to Australia, Michael has worked as a producer and production manager for Gatherer Media. Supporting the production of a diverse range of documentary work and art projects, including a documentary for the Banking Museum for ANZ Gothic (2024), Blak Design for Koorie Heritage Trust, The History of Pop for MAPCO (2023) , Wartime Stories from the Exhibition Buildings for Museums Victoria (2021) and Midnight at Pink Lake (2022) - a 360 degree video projection in collaboration with musical act The Orbweavers (as part of Art Up Late festival at the State Library of Victoria).